Public-private partnership catches creator of botnet

Cybersecurity Update – Tune in weekdays at 30 minutes past the hour for the latest cybersecurity news on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris (6-10 a.m.) and the DorobekINSIDER with Chris Dorobek (3-7 p.m.). Mariposa botnet. It’s the pervasive program that stole passwords for websites and financial institutions. The FBI says it stole computer users’ credit card and bank account information, launched denial of service attacks, and spread viruses in as many as 12 million computers. Just last week, the FBI announced they arrested the person who is believed to have created that bot. And, in part, the FBI credits the Mariposa Working Group — a public-private working group that worked with the FBI. Rodney Joffe is a senior vice president and senior technologist with Neustar, and helped to set up the Mariposa Working Group. We asked him how this cyber cloak-and-dagger came about. Click on the audio link above to hear our entire interview with him.

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